St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-18

muscular. The attack was unexpected
and his opponent mad with fury. Thu
noise OF the struggle and Marion's will
shrieks brought some half-doZen people
on the scene, but not before Tom fa(
flung the captain, with all his force, face
downward into the CRATE. and then
0verturning the supper table and ex
tinguishing the light, escaped in the
confusion and darkness, thrusting aside
chung around his feet.
Il Then he jumped into cab and drove
back to that home which was never
more to be gladdened by the presence of
ka wife.
There was no divorce, no action for
assault, although each member of the
p MacneadyS and every one of Capt. Yer
y mons personal friends searched the pa
; perssdaily with the kindest solicitude,
land experienced good deal of disap-
II pOiIltment not untinged with indigna-
II ton at finding no news of the bearing
II scandal.
5 Capt. Vernon went abroad after de-
tlclining to see Mrs. bearing and return
ing her letters unopened. When he
II came back, in two years. time, his
IIfrielas, male and female. were de-
fllighted to see him, and the latter voted
him more irresistibly wicked than
reverb He has deep scar on his
+9cheek. which he accounts for as being
/ the result of duel with VienneSe
student, and scarcely anyone knows a
champagne glass had more to do with it.
Mrs. Darlington and the rest, mean
while, vindicated their occasionally high
sense of morality by dropping Mrs.
bearing. 1t was decided that she
threw HERSELF at Capt. Vernon; Mrs.
Mordaunt Opined that "a woman ought
to be able to take care of herself" a
proposition with which the other ladies
entirely concurred. In such society
periodical fits of phariSaical virtue clear
the moral atmosphere, and Mrs. Dear
Ing was chosen as the especial social
ScapegOat on whose pretty head were
heaped the sins and follies of the COM
munity.
So, deserted by the women to whose
influence she owed her miSfOrtuneS,
shut out by the man she had deceived,
and scOrned by the man she had loved,
Marion bearing lived for time III
dreary remOrseful Obscurity Gil small
allowance paid her monthly by her hus-
bands solicitor. Then she obtained
employment in an orderly West End
theater, but found the professional
stage, under these auspices, so utterly
III dllu W
which her amateur experiences had &C
customed her, that she soon tired of it
and drifted into the choruses of various
other theaters devoted to burlesque and
comic opera.
Naturally sweet, affectionate, and
silly, she is popular but ill at ease
among the class now surrouning her.
Her one desire is to forget; her one
dread solitude, with its companion,
thought. Every moment of her lite she
tries to fill with fresh excitement, fresh
dissipations, and the end is not to be
thought of, not to be spoken of, here.
Meanwhile plain, Manufactured man
with prematurely white hair spends
his evenings alone in the little house
at Chelsea, except on those rare
occasions when a few friends
come in to smoke pipe with him. Then
such as know him will warn the rest
that unless they wish their stolid host
suddenly to change into dangerous
mailman they must avoid all reference
to women. to the stage, but more than
all, to amateur theatricals.
A dreary state of things and an odd
story, the strangest part whereof is that
it is absolutely true. Il